Nut-lock



(No Model.)

0. L. CASTLE.

NUT-LOCK.

No. 334,070. Patented Jan. 12, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ORLANDO LANE CASTLE, OF UPPER ALTON, ILLINOIS.

NUT-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,070, dated January 12, 1886.

Application filed August 26, 1895. Serial No. 175,863. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ORLANDO LANE CASTLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Upper Alton, in the county of Madison and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Nut-Locks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for securing a series of nuts by preventing them from turning upon their bolts; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to provide a suitable and efficient nut-holder, and, second, to furnish adequate means for securing the said holder in its place upon the nuts. These objects I secure by the mechanism illustrated in nuts, in which case each arm of the holder is connected with its separate washer by a separate hinge.

A, Fig. 1, is a nut-holder, preferably of elastic wire, twisted together at intervals to form the openings that are to receive the nuts, and

having at the ends a half-hinge or its equivalent for uniting with a similar device upon the base-washers B B to form the hinges H H, the said washers being-piercedgto receive the bolts of the nuts that rest upon them, respectively.

Fig. 4 shows an application of the same principle to the requirements of two nuts, the construction both of the holder A and of the nuts B B being the same as that described under Fig. 3, except that the pivotal rod connecting the two arms of the sectional holder there described is lengthened so as to connect with the washer of a second nut, also on the same side of the nuts, in the same line, and in the same manner as with the first, thus carrying the corresponding arm of the said holder beyond the said second nut, bringingeach arm in contact with a separate nut and its hook into connection with the other half-hinge of a separate adjacent washer, as shown.

In case two or more nuts are to be held, the hinge at one end should preferably be made complete and permanent in construction, the other being completed at will by springing the hooks of the holder into the opening in the washer provided forthem, as seen at H. They may, however, both be made like H, detachable, except in the case represented by Fig. 3, where one must be permanent.

The operation of the look under all the modifications described is substantially the same viz: In applying it'the holder A is thrown backward upon the pivot-rod of its permanent hinge, the two washers B B placed upon the bolts corresponding to the outermost of the nuts to be held, the nuts screwed down upon the washers and left in proper position to receive the holder, and finally the holder thrown forward to embrace the nuts and fastened in place by springing its detachable hooks into the adjacent half-hinge provided for them, as shown in the several figures. In this position it furnishes a convenient and cfficient means of holding the nuts from turning. It may, however, be detached at will by reversing the process so far as relates to the holder, thus leaving the nuts again free to be turned in either direction.

The modification shown in Fig. 3 requires merely that in the above description nut and washer be substituted for nuts and washers, as will readily appear.

The features of my improvement to which I desire to call attention are the convenient, durable, and economical nut-holder, and especially the mode of fastening the same in its place upon the nuts, by which attachment and detachment are rendered easy, while displacement, except by design, is rendered nearly impossible.

What I claim as my invention is A nut-holder provided at each end with a washer having a half-hinge, by means of which the said holder is connected on opposite sides of the nuts to be held with the washer.

ORLANDO LANE CASTLE.

Witnesses:

PATRICK WARD, J OHN KELLY. 

